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Water Effects in Photoshop

A Photoshop tutorial to create some water effects, including a splash and some waves.

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Create a Scenic Castle Hallway in Photoshop

In today’s tutorial, we will combine stock photography and some basic digital painting techniques to create a scenic castle hallway in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

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Walkthrough of a Digital Drawing

I chose to do a simple walkthrough of a recent drawing piece for my first attempt.

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How to create elegant Valentine’s Day card with ornamental heart in Photoshop CS5

In the following Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Custom shapes, Layer styles, and Gradients in Photoshop CS5 to create elegant Valentine’s Day card with ornamental heart. You can use these techniques and elements to create your own greeting card! Layered PSD file included.

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Create a Stylish Black and White Abstract Photomanipulation

Combine stock photography, custom shapes, brushes and filter effects to create a cool and stylish black and white abstract photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop with this tutorial.

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How to Draw a Steaming Hot Chili Pepper in Photoshop

A very detailed tutorial that will show you how to create a vaporous chili pepper illustration. You will learn advanced painting techniques such as working with custom brushes or achieving vapor effect in seconds. Full resolution PSD file included.

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http://elearnpsd.blogspot.com/2011/01/create-cool-plastic-jelly-text-effect.html

In this tutorial, we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy + paste the styles.

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Create Fancy Red Background in Photoshop

This tutorial is about making a textured red background and using Photoshop’s Shape Tool to add a design element. You can download the sample PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial.

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How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing

It goes without saying that everyone here has adjusted the contrast and levels in a picture. This tutorial will show you a way of safely using Auto Levels and a better way to adjust the contrast. All this can be built into an Action Script that can be turned into a droplet for drag and drop batch processing.

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Create a Shampoo Advertisement in Photoshop

Today we will use the pen tool, some basic shape transformations, and color blending to create a fresh-looking shampoo bottle within the context of an advertisement. Let’s get started!

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How to Create a Cool Cyberpunk Avatar for Facebook

This simple and well illustrated Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to take any photo of yourself and give it a cool Cyberpunk look. You can then use this photo as an avatar on Facebook, in forums and on message boards. This tutorial covers pattern definition and application, curves and contrast adjustment, type rasterization and more.

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Make a skull shaped firey spell in Photoshop

This tutorial explains the usage of fire stock images and use them as a texture on a skull image, to achieve a realistic skull shaped fire effect. It also explains the various light blending tricks and gives prime focus to scene illumination.

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How to Give Your Photos the Lomo Look

Lomography, or Lomo for short, has been popular for a while now and can be seen in advertising and fashion photography. Achieving the Lomo look generally requires specialized equipment but this easy to follow and well illustrated Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to take any photo and give it that hip Lomo look in no time.

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How to Make Your Photos Appear Antique

This easy to follow and well illustrated tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about turning any photograph into an antique photo. Covers color conversion, gradient masking, vignetting and more.

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How to Use Tilt Shift to Achieve a Miniature Effect

You may have seen photos of real places that appear to be miniatures, this effect is achieved through a technique called "Tilt Shift". This easy to follow tutorial will teach you how to achieve this effect in Photoshop, it covers gradient masking and blur filters, among other topics.

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Zoomify image in Photoshop CS5

Creating a web-based zoomable photo viewer

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How to Get Polaroid Effect on Your Photo

Loving the polaroid style on your picture but doesn't own a polaroid camera? Well, this tutorial will help you on getting that polaroid style picture in Photoshop.

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Make A Scary Alley Scene With A Zombie In Photoshop

This is a great tute which covers the blending of various stock images to make a surreal zombie overrun world. The lightning manipulation and blending techniques used are awesome.

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A Quick and Simple Way To Create a HDR Photo in CS5

Today we'll learn how to create a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. We'll not only explain exactly what an HDR is, but how to merge and edit one using adobe CS5's full line up of fantastic photographic tools.

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100 Creative Desktop Backgrounds

A nice collection of 100 creative desktop backgrounds. Important to know, that a proper background image can lift your mood. Just like we enjoy personalizing and decorating our homes, we are able to get the same pleasure of decorating our digital environment. Let’s have a look at the possibilities of such decorations.

Not yet rated with 1189 hits  Added on: Dec 23, 2010